[Extended length of stay following robot-assisted minimally invasive pulmonary lobectomy: Is incomplete ERAS protocol to blame?].

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a series of measures designed to promote early recovery after surgery. Application of this approach has led to significantly decreased morbi-mortality and reduced length of hospital stay. The aim of our study was to determine whether non-completion of the ERAS protocol following robotic-assisted mini-invasive lobectomy could be the cause of prolonged hospital stay (exceeding 6 days).

Explicit achievement motive strength determines effort-related myocardial beta-adrenergic activity if task difficulty is unclear but not if task difficulty is clear.

Work on physiological and other behavioral correlates of motives often assumes that motives exert a direct effect on behavior once activated. Motivational intensity theory, however, suggests that this does not always apply. In the context of task engagement, motive strength should exert a direct effect on myocardial beta-adrenergic activity if task difficulty is unclear, but not if task difficulty is known.

Clarity of task difficulty moderates the impact of the explicit achievement motive on physical effort in hand grip tasks.

Stable personality dispositions, like motives, are often assumed to exert a direct, stable impact on behavior. This also applies to the explicit achievement motive, which is supposed to influence the behavior that individuals select and how strongly they engage in it. Drawing on motivational intensity theory, we demonstrated in two studies that explicit achievement motive strength only predicted exerted force in a hand grip task if task difficulty was unclear.

When motion improves working memory.

In the present study, we used a complex span task to explore how memory traces resulting from Self-Performed Task (SPT) and Verbal Task (VT) are maintained in working memory. Participants memorised series of five sentences describing an action either through SPT or VT. Between pairs of sentences, participants performed a concurrent task that varied according to its nature and its cognitive load.